2015 Directory Of Agents
irectory of Agents Marily Allen Eve Atterman Malaga Baldi Meredith Bernstein Regina Brooks Madeleine Clark Ann Collette Elizabeth Copps Allison Devereux Rachael Dugas Lindsay Edgecombe Rachel Ekstrom Stephany Evans Jacqueline Flynn Stephen Fraser Hannah Brown Gordon Christina Hogrebe Carrie Howland Emily S. Keyes Andy Kifer
Dan Kirschen Katie Kotchman Gina Maccoby Siobhan McBride Monica Odom Gina Panettieri Sharon Pelletier Laura Blake Peterson Jessica Regel Michelle Richter Andrienne Rosado Elizabeth Winick Rubinstein John Rudolph Katharine Sands Eddie Schneider Susan Schulman Mary Sue Seymour Michael Sterling Saba Sulaiman Sarah E. Younger
Marilyn Allen Marilyn Allen is a founder and partner in Allen O’Shea Literary Agency, LLC which focuses on nonfiction works. Allen has previoulsy held senior sales and marketing positions for Penguin Books, Simon & Schuster and culminated as the Associate Publisher of HarperCollins. Allen and agent partner Coleen O’Shea co-authored The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Book Proposals and Query Letters (Penguin). The agency currently seeks practical nonfiction, memoir and pop culture, especially health, cooking, business, parenting, narrative nonfiction, science and blog-based books. “mailto:marilyn@allenoshea.com” marilyn@allenoshea.com
Genre:
Health, Cooking, Business, Science History, Pop Culture, Memoirs. Very open to non-fiction projects.
Website: www.allenoshealiteraryagency.com
Eve Atterman Eve Attermann is the Literary Coordinator at William Morris Endeavor’s Worldwide Book Department. She previously worked at Little, Brown and Company in publicity, and is a graduate of Vanderbilt University. Eve is interested in literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, genre- bending new adult, and pop science. She’s from Mamaroneck, NY.
“mailto: EAttermann@wmeentertainment.com “ EAttermann@wmeentertainment.com Twitter” @eveisis
Genre:
Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, New Adult, Pop Science
Website: www.wma.com
Malaga Baldi
Since 1986 Malaga Baldi has worked as independent literary agent. Her first publishing job was as a cashier at Gotham Book Mart. Baldi also worked in the Ballantine Books Publicity Department, and as an associate at Candida Donadio & Associates and the Elaine Markson Agency before going out on her own. She loves literary and historical fiction, cultural history and memoir. Baldi believes the strength of the author’s voice and the heart of the story to be important factors when considering new work. Baldi client’s include William J. Mann, Margaret Erhart, Kate Bornstein, Mary Cappello, Marguerite Feitlowitz, Thomas Larson, Bonnie Friedman, Holly Hughes, Ray Coppinger, Glen Kurtz and Rick Whitaker. Baldi graduated from Hampshire College and lives in NYC with her family and black standard poodle.
Baldi Agency “mailto: baldibooks@gmail.com “ baldibooks@gmail.com
Genre:
Cultural history, Hybrid nonfiction (multi disciplined), Narrative nonfiction, Memoir, Literary fiction, Quality historical & Biographical fiction.
Website: www.baldibooks.com
Meredith Bernstein Meredith Bernstein has been a literary agent for over 30 years, and celebrated her own agency’s 25th in April of ’06. Prior to becoming a literary agent, she worked as a story editor for film producers on both the East and West Coasts, as well as a freelance reader. In addition to being a literary agent, Ms. Bernstein has packaged two romance lines and co-authored Sexual Chemistry with Julius Fast (M. Evans/Pocket). Currently, the agency is looking for mainstream women’s fiction; urban fantasy, psychological suspense; thrillers; literary fiction and romances with a fresh twist or works by those who have previously been published in the genre. Because of the enormous success of the New York Times bestselling YA series by PC Cast and Kristin Cast: The House of Night, the agency is actively looking for young adult works.
Genre:
Commercial and Literary Fiction (women’s and men’s), Young Adult Fiction, Mysteries and Thrillers (series and standalone), All Genres of Romance Non-fiction: Memoir, Women’s Issues and Health/Medicine Parenting, Psychology, Business, Spirituality and Inspirational Works, Science, Travel
Website: www.meredithbernsteinliteraryagency.com
In non-fiction, she seeks authority written/driven works that shed new light on a given subject. She loves personal memoirs that bring out heroic individualism, and is further interested in health issues; politics; psychology; parenting; spirituality; medicine sports; biography; fashion etc. Her agency represents writers of “special” projects and creative endeavors that supersede genre. This eclectic list features outstanding writers, particularly in the areas of mystery, romance, and prescriptive non-fiction. Meredith Bernstein also has been very successful in representing individuals who have accomplished memorable and outstanding achievements in their lives. Among such clients are Miep Gies (the woman who hid Anne Frank’s family and found her diary), Patricia Ireland, the former president of N.O.W., and Dennis Conner, of sailing fame. Most recently, David Carroll, a naturalist, writer and illustrator won the MacArthur Genius Award for his body of work. He was also a finalist in the non-fiction category for the National Book Awards in 2009. ASSOCIATIONS: AAR; Sisters In Crime; Author’s Guild Meredith Bernstein Literary Agency http://www.meredithbernsteinliteraryagency.com “javascript:addSender(%22MGoodBern@aol.com%22)”
Regina Brooks Regina Brooks is the founder and president of Serendipity Literary Agency LLC, based in Brooklyn, New York. She represents a diverse base of award-winning clients in adult and young adult fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature, including: three-time National Book Award finalist, Newberry Honor Winner and the Coretta Scott King Honor and the 2006 Michael Printz Honor Awardwinning author Marilyn Nelson; winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award, Al Roker’s Book Club for Kids author Sundee Frazier; Stonewall Book Award Winner, Bil Wright. Brooks is a former Executive Editor at John Wiley and Sons and McGraw-Hill. She is the author of several books including , NEVER FINISHED NEVER DONE (Scholastic) , WRITING GREAT BOOKS FOR
Genre:
Non-Fiction, Memoir
Website: www.serendipitylit.com
YOUNG ADULTS (Source Books) YOU SHOULD (REALLY) WRITE A BOOK: How to Write, Sell and Market YOUR MEMOIR (St. Martin’s Press) and a well received blogger for the Huffington Post. Brooks is also on the faculty of the Writer’s Digest University, Harvard University publishing course, The Discovery Channels Media Boot Camp for Doctors, the Whidbey Island Writers MFA program and teaches annually atmore than twenty worldwide conferences. She has been highlighted in several national and international magazines and periodicals, including Forbes, Media Bistro, Writers and Poets, Essence Magazine, Ebony, Jet, Women on Writing, Writers Digest Magazine, and The Writer. She is the owner of Possibiliteas.co a tea company of master blended teas developed for creative minds. She is always interested in new and emerging writers.
Serendipity Literary Agency @serendipitylit.com
Madeleine Clark Madeleine Clark joined Sterling Lord Literistic in 2011 after working for several years in the editorial department at Algonquin Books. Her taste in fiction leans toward the sweet spot between commercial and literary and she loves a novel that can dabble believably, and lightly, in fantasy or magic. She is particularly interested in realistic YA, literary thrillers, and books that draw heavily from their geographical or cultural environment. In the nonfiction realm, Madeleine is looking for pop science, blog to book, dark humor, or memoir that offers something truly unique about the human experience.
“mailto: madeleine@sll.com “ madeleine@sll.com
Genre:
Realistic YA, Literary thrillers, Magical realism, Pop Science, Memoir, Humor
Website: www.sll.com
Ann Collette
Ann Collette was a freelance writer and editor before joining the Rees Literary Agency in 2000. Her list includes books by New York Times bestselling author B. A. Shapiro, Oprah’s “Fall 2012 Unputdownable Mysteries” author Mark Pryor, Anthony Nominee Vicki Lane, RT Award Nominees Clay and Susan Griffith, Steven Sidor, National Bestseller Carol Carr, and Chrystle Fiedler. She represents all types of crime fiction, literary, historical and upscale commercial women’s fiction (i.e. “book club” fiction); in non-fiction, she prefers narrative non-fiction, memoir, military and war, work to do with race and class, and work set in or about Southeast Asia. She also represents cookbooks. Ann does not represent children’s, YA, sci-fi, or high fantasy (Lord of the Rings-type books). “javascript:main.compose (‘new’,’t=ann@anncollette.com’) ”ann@anncollette.com http://twitter.com/ann_collette
Genre:
Crime fiction (mystery, thriller, suspense), Historical, Womens, Literary
Website: www.reesagency.com
Elizabeth Copps
Elizabeth Copps began her publishing career in 2010 as an intern for Maria Carvainis Agency, Inc. after graduating from Florida State University with a BA in English Literature. She was thrilled to join the agency full-time in 2011 as the new literary assistant. Two years later, she was offered the position of literary associate and is incredibly excited to build her own list of authors. Elizabeth considers herself an eclectic reader, but she is particularly interested in gritty thrillers and mysteries, literary, multicultural and contemporary fiction, women’s fiction, young adult and young adult crossover, memoir and romantic suspense. She appreciates rich and believable characters who immediately draw readers into their world, and she is captivated by a startling plot twist. MCA’s clients include Mary Balogh, Sandra Brown, Candace Camp, Cindy Gerard, Kristin Higgins, Will Thomas, and Laura Wright among others.
“mailto:ecopps@mariacarvainisagency.com” ecopps@mariacarvainisagency.com
Genre: Thrillers and mysteries, literary, multicultural and contemporary fiction, women’s fiction, young adult and young adult crossover, memoir and romantic suspense
Website: www.mariacarvainisagency.com
Allison Devereux Allison is associate agent and foreign & subsidiary rights manager at Wolf Literary Services. She moved to New York from Austin, where she was a graduate of the University of Texas and an intern at the Harry Ransom Center. She previously worked at Tor Books. Allison reads books across all genres, but she particularly loves magical realism (more real than magic), literary and upmarket commercial fiction, and books on popular and contemporary culture with a strong, original premise. mailto:allison@wolflit.com
Genre:
Literary fiction, up-market commercial, young adult, mystery/thriller/ suspense, women’s fiction, graphic novel. For non-fiction: pop culture, pop science, humor, narrative nonfiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, blog to book.
Website: www.wolflit.com
Rachael Dugas
Rachael Dugas joined Talcott Notch in 2011, directly following a long internship with Sourcebooks, where she assisted editors with romance, women’s fiction, and Jane Austen-related titles. Rachael, a proud Ithaca College alum, earned her BA in English, with minors in writing and theatre. Her current clients have written young adult fiction, middle grade fiction, women’s fiction, romance, and cookbooks. Rachael hopes to continue to procure works in all of the aforementioned categories, especially YA and MG fiction and all sub-genres of romance, especially contemporary and suspense. She would also be interested in historical fiction and nonfiction books related to the performing arts, crafting, design, or food/cooking. Follow her on Twitter: @RachaelDugas
Genre: YA and MG (especially
contemporary realistic, historical, and stories with a strong romance element in both categories), women’s fiction, and all sub-genres of romance, minus erotica. I would also be OK with some historical fiction.
Website: www.mariacarvainisagency.com
Lindsay Edgecombe
Lindsay represents journalists, scientists, internationally best-selling novelists as well as debut novelists, New Yorker cartoonists, and bloggers, among many others. She loves to uncover new talent and to work with her clients to develop great proposals from the spark of an idea. Her authors have contributed to NPR’s This American Life, written for the New York Times and many other publications, and have been on Oprah and The Daily Show. Lindsay graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University where she edited The Columbia Review. She recently wrote an e-course called “How to Write and Pitch a Book Proposal” for her clients Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman’s popular lifestyle blog, A Beautiful Mess. Link HYPERLINK “http://shop.abeautifulmess.com/ product/write-pitch-book-proposal/”here. mailto: LEdgecombe@LGRLITERARY.COM
Genre: Narrative nonfiction, memoir, lifestyle and health, illustrated books, as well as literary fiction, projects with strong narrators, obscure journeys, and political backbones, will take on any project that she’s passionate about.
Website: www.lgrliterary.com
Rachel Ekstrom Rachel Ekstrom’s decade of experience working in the publicity departments at St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books, and Penguin’s Dutton and Gotham imprints has given her an insider’s view of the publishing industry. With a knack for book promotion, she’s honed her skills building the careers of debut authors and #1 New York Times bestsellers. Rachel is passionate about a variety of genres, including young adult, women’s fiction, mysteries, thrillers, and the occasional quirky work of nonfiction. She’s looking for books that will make her heart beat faster than it does when she’s biking through Manhattan traffic. Follow her on twitter at: @ekstromrachel. mailto: rachel@irenegoodman.com
Genre: Young adult, women’s fiction, mysteries, thrillers, and the occasional quirky work of nonfiction. She’s looking for books that will make her heart beat faster than it does when she’s biking through Manhattan traffic
Website: www.irenegoodman.com
Stephany Evans Stephany Evans is President of FinePrint Literary Management in New York City. For twenty-three years she has represented nonfiction writers in the areas of health and wellness, spirituality, lifestyle, food, memoir and narrative nonfiction. She represents a wide range of primarily women’s fiction, from literary to commercial, to many sub-genres of romance, as well as mysteries. Some of her best-known projects include Emily Giffin’s SOMETHING BORROWED, Molly Harper’s NICE GIRLS DON’T HAVE FANGS, Sherri Browning Erwin’s JANE SLAYRE, and Rebecca Coleman’s THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD. Stephany is a member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, the Women’s National Book Association, and former co-chair of New York Women in Publishing. She splits her time between her offices in New York City and Marfa, TX. mailto: stephany@fineprintlit.com
Genre: Contemporary women’s (book
club) fiction, Romance-smart, sexy contemporary and romantic suspense, Mysteries from suspense to traditional cozies, with female protagonists. Nonfiction: health & wellness, Spirituality, lifestyle, Food, Memoir Narrative nonfiction
Website: www.fineprintlit.com
Jacqueline Flynn Jacqueline (Jacquie) Flynn joined Joelle Delbourgo Associates as a literary agent seeking to represent thoughtprovoking non-fiction as well as fiction and children’s titles. She is particularly interested in authors who offer fresh perspectives that counter conventional wisdom and novels that introduce us to characters we fall in love with. She uses her finely-developed editorial acumen to guide authors through the process of positioning their books for the marketplace, preparing proposals, and marketing their work. Recent sales include Laura Sobiech’s memoir FLY A LITTLE HIGHER (Thomas Nelson), Jennifer Alvarez’s debut middle-grade series The Guardian Herd (HarperCollins), Kate Harding’s Asking for It (Da Capo Press), Terry Gaspard and Tracy Clifford’s Daughters of Divorce (Sourcebooks), Anne Brown’s Promise Bound (Delacorte), and John Gaudet’s Papyrus (Pegasus). She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bucknell University where she
Genre:
All categories EXCEPT picture books, erotica, Westerns, poetry
Website: www.delbourgo.com
majored in International Relations and rowed on the Women’s Crew team. She is also a Hockey-SoccerVolleyball-Band Mom and avid hiker who lives in Northern New Jersey with her husband and two sons. You can also check out Jacquie’s HYPERLINK “http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/ JacquieFlynn/”Publishers Marketplace listing and follow her on HYPERLINK “https://twitter.com/ BookJacquie”Twitter. jacqueline@delbourgo.com
Stephen Fraser Stephen Fraser is a literary agent with the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency in New York City, a fullservice agency which handles both juvenile and adult books. Stephen has been voted top agent for both picture books and middle grade fiction. One of his clients, Margi Preus, won the Newbery Honor Medal for her novel, Heart of a Samurai (Abrams/Amulet, 2010 ); another client, Carol Lynch Williams, won the prestigious PEN International Award for her young adult novel Glimpse (Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster, 2010); and another client, Matthew J. Kirby, won both the Edgar award for best juvenile mystery and the PEN USA award for children’s literature for his middle grade novel, Icefall (Scholastic, 2011).
Genre:
Primarily represents books for children and teens, including both fiction and nonfiction, poetry, with everything from board books, picture books, chapter books, middle grade, and young adult. I’m open to books for adults and have some
books of photographs .
Website: www.jdlit.com
With more than twenty-five years’ editorial experience at publishers including Harper-Collins, Simon & Schuster, and Scholastic, Stephen edited such creative talents as Mary Engelbreit, Gail Gibbons, Michael Hague, Ann Rinaldi, Kathryn Lasky, Brent Hartinger, Stephen Mitchell, Dan Gutman, Gregory Maguire, and Daniel Pinkwater. He is graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont and has a Master’s Degree in Children’s Literature from Simmons College in Boston. Stephen is a popular speaker at writer’s conferences throughout the country.
Hannah Brown Gordon Hannah Brown Gordon is a literary agent at Foundry Literary + Media, where she has worked since 2007. She was previously employed at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates and is a graduate of Barnard College. Hannah represents absorbing and compelling writing, both fiction and nonfiction, and is most attracted to writers with a unique voice that lends itself to a singular reading experience. She is seeking to represent authors across many genres, and she is especially interested in stories and narratives that blend genres, including but not limited to thriller, fantasy and ‘light’ sci-fi, historical, literary, YA, speculative, memoir, diet and health, narrative nonfiction, food narrative and cookbooks, humor, and pop culture. She’s an avid reader of all genres. She enjoys the creative process of working with writers and collaborating closely with them throughout all stages of their careers.
Genre: Stories and narratives that
blend genres, including but not limited to thriller, fantasy and ‘light’ sci-fi, historical, literary, YA, speculative, memoir, diet and health, narrative nonfiction, food narrative and cookbooks, humor, and pop culture. Website: www.foundrymedia.com
Christina Hogrebe A native of Northeastern Pennsylvania, agent Christina Hogrebe grew up on a steady diet of Anne of Green Gables and Sweet Valley Twins books, for which she was nearly laughed out of the English department at Franklin & Marshall College and the University of Denver Publishing Institute, who graduated her anyway. Inspired by her favorite chick lit heroines, she left the wilds of PA in search of dirty martinis and adventure, landing on the doorstep of Jane Rotrosen Agency, who, sensing a kindred spirit, hired her as one of publishing’s many over-eager assistants in 2003. Christina annoyed mentor Meg Ruley with reader’s reports until they promoted her to agent soon thereafter. She continues to pursue “three-hanky-” and “read-with-the-lights-on” reads and is accepting published and unpublished clients. Christina can be reached at: “mailto:chogrebe@janerotrosen.com”
Genre:
Young Adult fiction (ages 12 and up) Contemporary Romance, New Adult Romance, Women’s fiction, Traditional Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
Website: chogrebe@janerotrosen.com.
Carrie Howland Carrie Howland is a literary agent at Donadio and Olson, Inc., where she represents literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, young adult, and middle grade authors. In addition to her own clients, she handles foreign, first serial, and audio rights for the agency. Carrie is a member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives and writes for its newsletter. She also enjoys speaking at various writing conferences throughout the year. Carrie holds a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Albion College, where she was the Poetry Editor of The Albion Review. Her poetry has appeared in various literary journals and magazines. In her spare time, Carrie volunteers as a foster for a local dog rescue. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can follow her on twitter at @ecarriehowland or learn more about Donadio & Olson at www.donadio.com.
Genre:
Literary/commercial/upmarket women’s fiction, young adult, middle grade, memoir, narrative non-fiction.
Website: www.donadio.com/agents/
Emily S. Keyes Emily S. Keyes is a literary agent Foreword Literary “http://www.forewordliterary.com/”www.forewordliterary. com). She joined in 2013 after working as an agent at the L. Perkins Agency for 2 years. Before entering the world of agenting, she worked in the contracts department of Simon & Schuster, Inc and graduated from New York University’s Center for Publishing. She uses her knowledge of contracts, copyright and the publishing business to benefit her clients and the Foreword team. Emily is a particular lover of all types of young adult and middle grade books. She wants to represent the kind of stories that will resonate with kids for the rest of their lives. She is also looking for a very select list of commercial adult fiction which includes fantasy & science fiction, women’s fiction, new adult fiction, along with pop culture and humor titles. She is not looking for poetry, short stories, or picture books.
Genre:
Young adult and middle grade fiction, all subgenres. But can also do adult women’s fiction, new adult, science fiction and fantasy if you don’t get a lot of children’s authors. www.forewordliterary.com
Andy Kifer Andy Kifer grew up in Pittsburgh, moved to North Carolina for school, and worked briefly as a high school cross-country coach before moving to New York to start his career in publishing. After interning at FSG, he worked for several years as a literary scout before joining The Gernert Company in 2012. In addition to his own clients’ books - which include surrealist sci-fi writer Tom Toner’s The Promise of the Child (Gollancz), Thomas Sweterlitsch’s mind-bending thriller Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Putnam), and Anne Leonard’s elegant fantasy Moth and Spark (Viking) - Andy has felt especially privileged to work on books like Chris Scotton’s The Secret Wisdom of the Earth (Grand Central), Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire (Knopf ), and Randall Munroe/xkcd’s What If? (Houghton Mifflin) while at Gernert.
Genre:
Literary fiction, Upmarket commercial fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy-Thrillers, YA thrillers or YA SF/F Narrative nonfiction
Website: www.thegernertco.com
Andy is looking for literary fiction and sophisticated genre fiction, but is especially intrigued by novels that break those distinctions down. He loves narrative nonfiction with a strong voice, and great stories that come from surprising places.Â
Dan Kirschen Dan Kirschen began at International Creative Management in 2010. His areas of interest include male-centric literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir, humor, pop culture and its opposite (something like ‘alternative living’). In addition to his literary strivings, he plays drums in a band called “http://thehenrymillers.com/”The Henry Millers, a fitting moniker for his two passions, though he had nothing to do with its naming. He hails from Rochester, NY and holds a degree in Philosophy summa cum laude from The College of William and Mary.
Genre:
Male-centric literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir, humor, pop culture and its opposite (something like ‘alternative living’)
Website: www.icmtalent.com
Katie Kotchman
Katie Kotchman began her career at Denise Marcil Literary Agency in 2005 as an intern, before quickly moving up to literary assistant and then business manager. While at DMLA, she handled contractual review and negotiations for the agency’s domestic contracts and sold audio and digital rights. In 2008, Katie joined Don Congdon Associates as an agent to actively build her own list. She also serves as digital rights manager. Katie looks for emotionally compelling writing with strong, carefully crafted characters with an irresistible voice. She is particularly characters who exhibit a fatal flaw or struggle with cultural or psychological dualities. She’s interested in up-market women’s fiction, young adult,mystery, thriller, and literary fiction. In non-fiction, she specializes in business, narrative non-fiction, and pop culture. Katie is member of the Association of Author’s Representatives and serves on the AAR’s program committee.
Genre:
She’s interested in up-market women’s fiction, young adult, mystery, thriller, and literary fiction. In non-fiction, she specializes in business, narrative non-fiction, and pop culture. See Genre Chart.
Website: www.doncongdon.com
Gina Maccoby Gina Maccoby, principal of the full-service boutique Gina Maccoby Literary Agency in New York, is a highly respected agent representing and counseling fiction and nonfiction writers. She has over 30 years of experience working with fiction and non-fiction editors, publishers, e-publishers, magazine editors, movie and television producers and directors, and foreign publishers and agents in advancing the interests of her clients and getting their work published. Prior to founding her own agency in 1986, Gina represented clients and handled foreign, first serial and motion picture rights at Russell & Volkening, Inc., one of the oldest and for much of the 20th century one of the leading literary agencies in New York, where she worked with authors Barbara Tuchman, Eudora Welty, Anne Tyler and Bernard Malamud, among others. Gina is currently serving her third term on the Board of Directors of the Association of Authors Representatives (AAR) and
Genre:
Fiction: mystery/crime, thriller, domestic drama, coming of age, general Nonfiction: biography, history, narrative journalism, memoir, pop culture, health Children’s: middle grade and YA
Website: www.
is a member of the AAR’s Royalties Committee, Contracts Committee, and Ethics Committee. She is a longtime member of the Authors Guild. A voracious reader who always has her nose in at least one book and is an avid listener to audiobooks in the car, Gina was raised mostly in Northern California and graduated with honors from Harvard College.
Siobhan McBride Siobhan McBride joined Serendipity Literary Agency in 2014. Raised in New York’s Hudson Valley region she studied painting, drawing, and ceramics before receiving her Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing from SUNY New Paltz. She began her career in Publishing as an intern for the literary agency Objective Entertainment, and from there went on to work as a writer in the Editorial departments of various magazines including MovieMaker and Chronogram. She enjoys the dark, macabre aspects of life where paranormal fiction and horror are viewed as under appreciated art forms deeply rooted in psychology, and looks for authors unafraid to delve into these inner workings of the human psyche.
Genre: Voice driven Fiction, Memoir,
or Non-Fiction. In Fiction: Literary and Gothic Fiction, Horror, Paranormal, Adult Dystopian, Mystery/Crime, Thrillers, Historical, daring Young Adult, and narratives with philosophical undertones. For Memoir and Non-Fiction titles: Investigative, True Crime, and dark/bizarre History. Website: www.serendipitylit.com
Siobhan looks forward to creating lasting relationships with her clients and wants to work closely with them to give life to the vision of their work. Holding positions on both sides of the editorial field gives her a strong grasp of what an audience is looking for and the knack to balance that with a writers’ artistic drive.Â
Monica Odom Associate Agent, Monica Odom, joined Liza Dawson Associates in 2010. She is also the agency’s manager of finance and social media. Monica graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English from Montclair State University, and recently completed her Masters in Publishing from New York University. Prior to joining LDA, Monica interned at Joelle Delbourgo Associates, New Jersey Business Magazine, and MTV Networks’ Public Affairs department. Monica is building her client list with a focus on literary fiction, compelling speculative fiction and magic realism, women’s fiction, and voice-driven memoir, as well as a focus on nonfiction in the areas of pop culture, food and
Genre:Literary fiction, women’s fiction, and voice-driven memoir, nonfiction: pop culture, food and cooking, history, politics, and current affairs, big ideas. No romance, military, or Young adult, middle grade, adult fiction. See Genre Chart for complete list.
Website: www.lizdawsonassociates.com
cooking, history, politics, and current affairs. Monica is looking for writers with big ideas who push the boundaries of storytelling and its traditional forms. She is especially interested in writers with strong social media platforms who have something original to say. In her free time, Monica can most often be found with her nose in a book (or handheld screen), unless she is catering to the various and extensive needs of her spoiledrotten cats, Sam and Luna.
Gina Panettieri Gina Panettieri is the founder of Milford, Connecticutbased Talcott Notch Literary Services, and has worked as an agent for 25 years. She currently represents 50 clients and works with an eclectic mix of writers, from talented teen debuts and amazing writer/moms, to corporate CEOs, Deans of Medical Schools, Navy Seals and a former Head of NATO Intelligence. She’s seeking both fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. Some of her recent projects include YOU LOOK LIKE THAT GIRL, a memoir by former child actress Lisa Jakub, BRAINSCRIPTS by Drew Eric Whitman, PLASTIC JESUS, a futuristic thriller by UK bestseller Wayne Simmons, COCKTAIL NOIR by Scott Deitche, The Black Gate Trilogy by Brian Taylor, SURGE: Reflections on Soldiers, Service and the War in Iraq by Major Daniel Sjursen,
Genre: Young adult, middle grade, adult fiction including mystery, suspense, thriller, romance, historical, mainstream, horror, fantasy, science fiction, adult non-fiction, including memoir.
Website: www.talcottnotch.net
and the realistic contemporary YA novel BIG FAT DISASTER by Beth Fehlbaum. Some of the novels written by authors discovered by Gina at previous Unicorn Writers Conferences and signed to Talcott Notch agent Rachael Dugas include the Regency romance HE’S NO PRINCE CHARMING by Elle Daniels plus others in the series sold to Hachette and the Middle-Grade mystery series THE DMS FILES by J. Haight and S. Robinson sold to Delacorte.
“mailto:gpanettieri@talcottnotch.net”
Sharon Pelletier Sharon Pelletier joined Dystel & Goderich Literary Management after working for small independent publishers Europa Editions and Vantage Press. She previously worked as a Barnes & Noble bookseller for a few years before and after moving to New York City from the Detroit suburbs where she grew up. At DGLM Sharon oversees the agency’s digital program and social media. “mailto:spelletier@dystel.com”
Genre:
Literary fiction, Thriller/mystery Women’s fiction, Memoir Narrative nonfiction
Website: www.dystel.com
Laura Blake Peterson Laura Blake Peterson is Vice President of Curtis Brown, Ltd., one of the oldest, largest and most prominent literary agencies in the publishing industry. She represents numerous NYT bestselling authors of romance, romantic suspense, thrillers and mysteries. She represents a wide variety of literary and mainstream fiction as well, including fiction for young adults. Her award-winning nonfiction clients also publish in a variety of categories, most notably natural history, biography, narrative nonfiction and journalism.
Genre: fiction, non-fiction and books
for children. Her client list reflects a wide range of interests – including memoir and biography, natural history, literary fiction, mystery, suspense, women’s fiction, health and fitness,children’s and young adult, faith issues and popular culture
Website: www.curtisbrown.com
Jessica Regel
Jess serves as Foundry’s Foreign Rights Director for Children’s Books, and also represents her own list of authors. As a domestic agent, Jess represents all genres of young adult and middle grade books, as well as a select list of adult general fiction, women’s fiction, and adult nonfiction. She is passionate about discovering projects that are compulsive, contagious, and creative. She’s particularly interested in books that are “conversation starters” and novels that bridge the literary-commercial divide, combining a high-concept plot with beautiful writing. On the foreign side, with energy and persistence, Jess develops the international careers of Foundry clients. Each day she calls on the relationships she’s cultivated with foreign editors and agents to place Foundry authors’ works in new countries and new cultures across the globe.
Genre: Adult Fiction (I do everything
except genre—so no straight romance or sci fi, for example), Young Adult, Middle Grade, Children’s Nonfiction, and for Nonfiction: Pop Culture/Humor & Narrative Nonfiction
Website: www.foundrymedia.com
Originally from Iowa, Jess was working at her local library when she was offered a job at the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency and packed up for New York City. She spent 11 years at the Naggar Agency representing subsidiary rights and building her list of authors, including: Lesley Livingston’s Wondrous Strange and Starling series (HarperTeen), Emily Danforth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Balzer + Bray), Cecilia Galante’s Little Wings Series (Random House Children’s), Shana Mlawski’s Hammer of Witches (Lee & Low), Jeryl Brunner’s My City, My New York (Globe Pequot Press), J.C. Carleson’s Work Like a Spy (Profile) and The Tyrant’s Daughter (Knopf ), and Jillian Cantor’s Margot (Riverhead) and Searching for Sky (Bloomsbury). Jess is a graduate of Hunter College with a degree in English Literature. Jess Regel only accepts submissions by email. Please send all queries to: jrsubmissions@foundrymedia. com. For more information on submitting your project, please see the Foundry Submissions page. “michelle@forewordliterary.com
Michelle Richter Michelle Richter is an Associate Agent at Foreword Literary. She was at St. Martin’s Press for eight years, where she edited Melissa Joan Hart’s MELISSA EXPLAINS IT ALL, among others, and worked on a variety of fiction and nonfiction. Michelle is seeking fiction including book club reads, literary fiction, well-crafted women’s commercial fiction, thrillers, and mysteries (amateur sleuth, police procedurals and smart cozies). In nonfiction, she’s seeking fashion, film, television, science, medicine, sociology/social trends, and economics. She has a soft spot for stories set in Boston, Ireland, and Russia. michelle@forewordliterary.com
Genre: Mystery, thriller, women’s
commercial fiction, literary fiction (no new adult, fantasy/sci fi, romance)
Website: www.forewordliterary.com
Adrienne Rosado Adrienne Rosado is an agent at Nancy Yost Literary Agency as well as the Director of Subsidiary Rights. She is interested in literary and commercial fiction, especially YA, urban fantasy, thrillers, multicultural fiction, women’s fiction, and new adult, all with strong voices and an authentic tone. She’s especially drawn to dark humor and innovative takes on classic literary themes. She’s been known to have a soft spot for Southern gothics. Adrienne is also on the lookout for quirky and smart narrative nonfiction, memoirs, pop science, and business books with a creative approach. “mailto: adrienne@nyliterary.com “
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Quirky and smart narrative nonfiction, memoirs, pop science, and business books with a creative approach.
Website: www.nyliterary.com
Elizabeth Winick Rubinstein Elizabeth Winick Rubinstein, President and senior agent at McIntosh & Otis, has degrees from NYU and Manhattan School of Music. She began her career in subsidiary rights and as an acquisitions editor in audio publishing. She initially joined M&O as subsidiary rights manager, but soon became an agent. Elizabeth represents numerous New York Times bestsellers, and both Agatha and Edgar Award winners and nominees. mailto: sguan@mcintoshandotis.com
Genre: Literary fiction, women’s fiction, historical fiction, romance, thriller, mystery/suspense, narrative nonfiction, history and current affairs
Website: www.mcintoshandotis.com
John Rudolph
John Rudolph joined Dystel & Goderich in 2010 after twelve years as an acquiring children’s book editor. He began his career at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers as an Editorial Assistant and then moved to the G. P. Putnam’s Sons imprint of the Penguin Young Readers Group, where he eventually served as Executive Editor on a wide range of young adult, middle-grade, nonfiction, and picture book titles. He graduated from Amherst College with a double major in Classics and Music. John is always eager to discover fresh new voices and highly original stories regardless of category, though he’s probably known as a “boy book” kind of guy. He is particularly interested in thrillers and other commercial men’s fiction. He is also actively looking for narrative nonfiction, especially in music, sports, other performing arts, health/popular science, business, memoir, military history, and humor. And on the children’s side, he is keenly interested in middle-grade and young adult fiction, and would love to find the next great picture book author/illustrator.
Genre: All narrative nonfiction
• Memoir •YA •MG •Picture Books •Adult crime fiction •Thrillers •Suspense •Mysteries •Lliterary Fiction— basically, anything except romance and erotica
Website: www.dystel.com
Katharine Sands A literary agent with the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency, Katharine Sands has worked with a varied list of authors who publish a diverse array of books. Highlights include Spiritual Pregnancy: Nine Months that Change Your Life Before You Give Birth by Dr. Shawn Tassone and Dr. Kathryn Landherr; Talk to Strangers: How Everyday Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income and Life by David Topus; The New Rules of Attraction: How to Get Him, Keep Him and Make Him Beg for More by Arden Leigh; Stand Up for Yourself: Resolve Workplace Crises Before You Quit, Get Axed or Sue the Bastards by Donna Ballman; Making Healthy EZ with Dr. Oz guest, Dr. Julie Chen;Dating the Devil (producer: Vast Entertainment) by Lia Romeo; XTC: SongStories; Chasing Zebras: THE Unofficial Guide to House, MD by Barbara Barnett of Let’s Talk TV; CityTripping:
Genre: FICTION: Literary fiction,
Chick Lit, commercial fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novel, historical fiction, mystery. NON-FICTION: Inspirational, Food & Lifestyle, Self-help, medical, cookbooks, travel, dating/relationships, etc. See Genre Chart for complete list.
Website: www.sarahjanefreymann.com
a Guide for Foodies, Fashionistas and the Generally Style-Obsessed; Writers on Directors; Ford model Helen Lee’s The Tao of Beauty; Elvis and You: Your Guide to the Pleasures of Being an Elvis Fan; New York: Songs of the City; Taxpertise: Dirty Little Secrets the IRS Doesn’t Want You to Know; The SAT Word Slam, Divorce After 50; Trust Your Gut; Make Up, Don’t Break Up with Oprah guest Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil to name a few. She is the agent provocateur of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent’s Eye, a collection of pitching wisdom from leading literary agents. Recently contributed “Grey is the New Black” to Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey, a nonfiction look at the cultural phenom of the bestselling novel. Actively building her client list, she likes books that have a clear benefit for readers’ lives in categories of food, travel, lifestyle, home arts, beauty, wisdom, relationships, parenting and fresh looks, which might be at issues, life challenges or popular culture. When reading fiction she wants to be compelled and propelled by urgent storytelling, and hooked by characters. For memoir and femoir, she likes to be transported to a world rarely or newly observed.
Eddie Schneider Eddie Schneider (Twitter: @eddieschneider) is the Vice President of JABberwocky Literary Agency, which he joined in 2008. JABberwocky is best known for representing many New York Times bestselling authors of fantasy and science fiction, including Brandon Sanderson (Steelheart) and graphic novelist Alison Wilgus. In addition to these genres, Eddie is especially interested in YA and middle-grade, both realistic and fantastic, in literary fiction, and nonfiction including science, nature, history, and social science. He is an Iowa graduate, holds an M.S. in Publishing from New York University, and when he isn’t reading or editing, runs ultramarathons. You can also read a lot more about his agenting style and opinions in this Reddit AMA from June 2012 http://www. reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/uzmf7/ im_literary_agent_eddie_schneider_query_me/
Genre: Fiction: Science fiction, fantasy, literary/mainstream fiction, YA, MG, Non-fiction: Science, nature, history, and social science Graphic novels: In any of the above categories
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Susan Schulman A former college teacher of linguistics and a former university press editor in chief, Susan has been a literary and dramatic agent for 25 years. She specializes in selling directly for the client all derivative rights to an intellectual property, that is film, television, audio, translation and allied rights to a novel or non-fiction book. Recent sales include Patrick Carman’s SKELETON CREEK SERIES for television, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH for film and for Broadway bound musical adaptation, ebook and reprint in hardcover to Random House U.S. and Orion U.K., ENEMIES A LOVE STORY by Isaac Bashevis Singer for motion picture remake and for opera adaptation, DOABLE: How to Get Things Done by Debbie Reber (Simon Pulse) and two additional books also for Simon Pulse, STRANDED by Dorothy Patent with illustrations by Dan Hartman to Bloomsbury Children’s Books, Vicki Cobb’s HORRIBLE WEATHER
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Non fiction, from memoirs to urban affairs, governance, the law, social sciences, psychology, history, biography and literary fiction, intellectual property rights, happy to talk to any writer about IP issues, rights, film rights in particular, adaptation rights, copyright issues, estate issues.
Website:www.susanschulmanagency.com
Series for Walker Children’s Books, and a series to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt tentatively entitled SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS YOU CAN EAT, three new art instruction books by Chris Hart for Random House’s Ten Speed Press, and a video series based on the books, plus an additional series to Soho Publishing on cartooning and the translation rights to many of these titles. Susan is always looking for the new voice in fiction or non-fiction. Schulman@aol.com
Mary Sue Seymour Literary Agent and Founder of The Seymour Agency, www.theseymouragency.com, Mary Sue Seymour, nominated for American Christian Fiction Writers Agent of the Year, has been agenting for over 20 years, and is listed as a top deal-maker for inspirational fiction on Publisher’s Marketplace. She has sold New York Times selling projects such as The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook and Shelley Shepard Gray’s Missing. She has also sold multi-book deals to Thomas Nelson, Zondervan, Harvest House, Bethany House, Cook, Harper One, Abingdon Press, B&H, Guideposts, Summerside and others. She travels the country and world presenting writing workshops, mentoring writers, and doing appointments with them. She has been a guest agent at The Women’s Fiction Festival in Matera, Italy, has attended the London Book Fair, and has traveled to almost every American city for writing conferences, and she’d loved every minute of it.
Genre: Inspirational non-fiction, inspirational fiction and some secular romance.
Website: www.theseymouragency.com
If you’d like to see current sales, conference pictures or recent covers of books she’s sold, please visit her web site. Mary Sue and her co-agent, Nicole, are writing a book titled, The Smart Guide to Getting Published, which will be released in 2013. Mary Sue represents several best selling Christian authors such as New York Times best selling author Shelley Shepard Gray, Mary Ellis, Amy Clipston, Vannetta Chapman, Ruth Reid, Don Reid of the Statler Brothers and others; her writers have won numerous publishing industry awards and have been the subject of articles and starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly and other publications. Mary Sue likes to keep busy since her sons, Matt and Luke, have grown up. She ran the Disney half marathon this past January and took 317th place in her age category of 55-59. She teaches art on cruise ships in exchange for a complimentary cruise for two [which has made her exceedingly popular with her friends!].
marysue@theseymouragency.com
Michael Sterling Prior to joining Folio Literary Management, Michael worked at Habitus: A Diaspora Journal, a literary magazine in Brooklyn. His work there was editorially driven, from copy-editing to design and production. Since joining Folio, he’s worked with many best-selling fiction and non-fiction authors across various genres, and welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with debut and seasoned authors alike. He seeks literary, commercial, and upmarket fiction, as well as thrillers with tremendous commercial appeal and strong writing. Michael also seeks non-fiction with a strong narrative element—political books, memoirs, investigative and journalistic works, or titles that place a specific region, historical event, person or thing under a microscope. Mailto: msterling@foliolit.com
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Fiction: literary, commercial, upmarket fiction. Thrillers, mystery, espionage. Nonfiction: political, memoir, investigative/journalistic
Website: www.foliolit.com
Saba Sulaiman Saba Sulaiman is the newest member of Talcott Notch Literary Services, a boutique agency located in Milford, CT. She joined the team after working as an editorial intern at Sourcebooks, where she worked primarily on their romance line. She’s looking for up-market literary and commercial fiction, romance (all subgenres except paranormal), character-driven psychological thrillers, cozy mysteries, and memoir, in both adult and YA. She’s also actively seeking Middle Grade. She holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MA from the University of Chicago, where she studied modern Persian literature.
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Up-market literary and commercial fiction, romance (all subgenres except paranormal), character-driven psychological thrillers, cozy mysteries, and memoir, in both adult and YA. She’s also actively seeking Middle Grade.
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Sarah E. Younger
Sarah E. Younger joined the Nancy Yost Literary Agency in the fall of 2011, before working at NYLA she was the eBook editor at Press 53 in Winston-Salem North Carolina. She is an avid reader of YA, Romance, and Historical Fiction. Sarah is specifically interested in representing all varieties of Genre fiction particularly Romance, Women’s Fiction, and YA. Sarah enjoys submissions with a strong voice that is intelligent and unique. Plots should be well thought-out and original; touches of humor and whimsy are a bonus as are submissions that can make her tear up. Additionally, she enjoys works with a strong supporting cast of animal characters: horses, dogs, cats; essentially all pets furry and friendly. Please note that romance submission should have palpable chemistry, it is a MUST. Sarah does not represent: Narrative Non-Fiction, Poetry, Horror, or non-romantic Thrillers and Suspense. (The only exception is she is open to non-fiction animal books ex: THE EIGHTY-DOLLAR CHAMPTION)
Genre: All varieties of YA and
Romance: Contemporary, Historical, Western, Sports, Regency, Inspirational, Category, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Romantic Suspense/Thriller, Young Adult, New Adult, and any combination thereof. See Genre Chart.
Website: www.nyliterary.com